Progress made today, I now have all 50 bits of frame decoration welded in place. It's not at all pretty yet, lots of grinding back of welds to do, filing and filling yet. BUT they are finally all ON!
Yet ANOTHER tangent.... custom 1910 style English "sloping top tube" Path Racer project.
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This will definitely be a head scratcher for most people looking at it 
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MattiThundrrr
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Grant, not sure if you are trying to say the that sloping top tubes weren't happening in 1910, but here's a couple of examples of path racers from 1910.
1910 Fortuna
1910 Triumph
The ones you posted are not the same
1910 Fortuna
1910 Triumph
The ones you posted are not the same
What do you mean by "those bikes"?
Finished grinding and filing the metal of the frame forks and seat stay today. Then cleaned them all up free of rust and dirt and sprayed on a couple of coats of etch primer. Milestone reached! Next is a light sand and a couple of good primer coats over which I will be filling sanding, filling sanding re priming filling sanding and re priming until I have a perfect surface invisible joins with all the lug decorations.... lots of work, but none of it hard, just time consuming! Then I have my bright blue 2K paint to go on. I am currently looking into applying real gold leaf layers to the low areas of the head tube.... and using gold paint for the lug lining.... The blue is deeper and a little darker than that picture (at least on my screen)
Interesting shot from a 1909 MEAD cattle dog showing a nice sloping top tube path racer.
Even called "Path racer" by the factory.
Even called "Path racer" by the factory.
MattiThundrrr
Rattus All Terrainus
The little madman in my head wants to know how this would look with suspension on the seat stays. Sort of a 1910 Off-path Racer. Please ignore my musings, carry on, I am amazed by your handwork and dedication. Especially the dedication.
Speaking of madman.... my other LONG Path Racer is call the "The Archduke"..... so what could I call this shorter bike?? Still going with that Royal theme.... as they are going to be twins in color and details....
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MattiThundrrr
Rattus All Terrainus
"The Jack" sounds pretty tough... however, Archduke denotes a rank within the former Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), which was below that of Emperor and King and above that of (debatably) a Grand Duke, Duke and Prince. If this bike is "lower rank" than the Archduke, perhaps something along those lines
Well it's shorter, so maybe the "The Archdu" 
You have way more patience than I've had collectively in my lifetime! I gave up on box pinstriping the chainstays on my 2000 Iver Johnson because I was impatient and nobody would notice. They don't, but I do and I regret not going that little bit further. When hipsters were still building fixies and celebrating the time of idealized great-grandfathers they never met (mine had his wife committed to in an insane asylum and dumped his kids in an orphanage where nuns used them as farm labor so that he could remarry someone much younger), I wondered if there was a market for stick-on fake fancy lugs. The real version looks great!
As for potential royal titles to use for a name, I can't think of anything!
As for potential royal titles to use for a name, I can't think of anything!
Current short list... "The Vice-marshal", "The Royal Arch", "The Prince Regent".... hitting military, Masonic and Royalty there...
I do enjoy creating things, and the numbing mindless tedium is just a super-fun bonus.... still the hours are good... but some of the minutes can be pretty lousy...
True........ "Golden Phoenix"?.... Another good one, considering it's going to be painted blue is "Blue Blood"
